On 01/04/2014 14:06, Martin Bonner wrote:
On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 1:44:41 PM UTC+1, thescullster wrote:
I am trying to understand the history of a laptop.
The product key sticker on the back shows Windows 7 Home Premium as the OS.
Looking at the partitions themselves, one of them is labelled Vista (the
other two partitions are WinRe and Data).

If the laptop originally had Vista installed in the shop and it was
upgraded to Win 7 before sale, would this account for the different
partition labelling? Or is the Vista partition proof positive that the
laptop has had the OS reinstalled at some time?

I guess anyone using a PC or laptop that has been upgraded from Vista to
7 should have the answer to this one.



Thanks Martin



Firstly, the partition labels don't necessarily have anything to do with
the contents of the partition.

Understood


What operating system is currently installed?

The laptop will not boot so that's a tricky one. I have accessed the
drive via USB caddy to get the partition labels.


I would expect reinstalling the OS to leave the partition labels
untouched.

Note that the original manufacturing process may have been upgraded so
that the partition image put on the partition called "Vista" contained
a Win7 operating system.

This sounds shoddy practice. Do you have examples of manufacturers and
I will steer clear.


Phil